SSM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY,

DINDIGUL-5
Department of Mechanical Engineering
ME 8651-Design of Transmission Systems
Year/Sec: III Year (A, B & C) Academic Year: 2019-20
TUTORIAL PROBLEMS
UNIT-II
PART- A
1. Describe the advantage of gear drives.
2. Explain undercutting in gears.
3. Explain the interference in gears?
4. How can interference in gears be avoided?
5. Classify the main types of gear tooth failure?
6. Differentiate Spur and helical gear
7. Describe virtual number of teeth in helical gear?
8. Name some materials used for gears.
9. Give the requirements of a gear material.
10. Label (a) Addendum (b) Flank in a simple sketch of gear tooth.
11. Why is dedendum value more than addendum value?
12. What is working depth of a gear tooth?
13. What is backlash in gears?
14. What factors influence backlash in gear drives?
15. Specify the conditions based on which gear cutters are used?
16. Define: module, circular pitch, and diametrical pitch.
17. What are the commonly used gear tooth profiles?
18. What is interference in involute profile?
19. Compare involute and cycloid profiles.
20. State the law of gearing.
21. What is pressure angle? What is the effect of increase in pressure angle?
22. What are the effects of increasing and decreasing the pressure angle in gear
design?
23. What are the conditions required for interchangeability?
24. How teeth does contact occur in spur and in helical gears?
25. Why is a gear tooth subjected to dynamic loading?
26. Differentiate the following terms with respect to helical gears (a) Transverse
circular pitch (b) Normal circular pitch and (c) Axial pitch.
27. How the number of teeth affects the design of gears?
28. What are the advantages of helical gear over spur gear?
29. What is Herringbone gear? State its application.
30. What condition must be satisfied in order that a pair of spur gears may have a
constant velocity ratio?
PART- B
1. Design a spur gear to transmit 2 kW at 1440 rpm. Desired speed ratio is 3. Use
C45 steel for gears.
2. A 37.5 kW power is transmitted at 450 rpm to a shaft running at approximately
112 rpm through a spur gear drive. The load is steady and continuous. Design the gear
drive and check the design. Assume the following materials: Pinion-heat treated cast
steel; Gear-High grade cast iron.
3. Design a spur gear drive for a heavy machine tool with moderate shocks. The
pinion is transmitting 18 kW at 1200 rpm with a gear ratio of 3.5. Design the drive and
check for elastic stress and plastic deformation. Make a sketch and label important
dimensions arrived.
4. A motor shaft rotating at 1500 rpm has to transmit 15 kW to a low speed shaft with
a speed reduction of 3:1. The teeth are 20o involute with 25 teeth on the pinion. Both the
pinion and gear are made of steel with a maximum safe stress of 200 N/mm 2. A safe stress
of 40 N/mm2 may be taken for the shaft on which the gear is mounted and also for the
key. Design a spur gear drive to suit the above conditions. Assume starting torque to be
25% higher than the running torque.
5. Design a helical gear drive to transmit the power of 14.7 kW, Speed ratio 6, pinion
speed 1200 rpm, helix angle is 25o. Select 15Ni2Cr1 Mo15 for pinion and C45 for gear.
Design the gear pair
6. A pair of helical gears subjected to moderate shock loading is to transmit 30 kW at
1500 rpm of the pinion. The speed reduction ratio is 4 and the helix angle is 20 o. The
service is continuous and the teeth are 20o FD in the normal plane. Design the gears,
assuming a life of 10,000 hours.
7. Design a pair of helical gears to transmit 10 kW at 1000 rpm of the Pinion.
Reduction ratio of 5 is required. Give details of the drive in a tabular form. Life of gear
is10 x 103 hrs.
8. A compressor running at 360 rpm is driven by 140 kW, 1440 rpm motor through a
pair of 20o full depth helical gears having helix angle of 25 o. The center distance is
approximately 400 mm. The motor pinion is to be forged steel and the driven gear is to be
cast steel. Assume medium shock conditions. Design the gear pair.